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Education
Brigham Young University
Ph.D. in Mathematics (GPA: 4.0)
Provo, Utah
2005
Dissertation: Statistical Properties of Thompson’s Group and Random Pseudo Manifolds
Utah State University
B.S. in Mathematics (GPA: 4.0)
Salt Lake City, Utah
2001
Work Experience
Mathematics Department Faculty
Brigham Young University - Idaho
Rexburg, ID
2005 - Current
- Teach 3 semesters a year, from early September through late July
- Conduct professional development activities, creating educational materials
- (2012+) Internship coordinator for mathematical sciences majors
- (2005+) Local Organizer for Putnam Exam
- (2021+) Master Learning Practitioner Coordinator and Thinkshop Lead
- (2010-11) Outcomes and Assessment University Committee member
- \(\LaTeX\) (2002 - present): Use \(\LaTeX\) on a daily basis, including tikz
- SPSS/PSPP/Excel (2006+): Common tools used in statistics program
- PHP (2008+): Maintain various wikis. Wrote PMWiki’s jsMath cookbook.
- MySQL, MediaWiki, Webmaster (2013+): Creator and webmaster for department webspace (web hosting and dedicated servers)
- JavaScript/HTML5/CSS (2014+): Created an interactive normal probability applet
- JQuery/CSS (2014): Enabled instructor customization of course text
- R, Curl, XML (2015): Automated course package creation, saving faculty thousands of hours
- SageMath/PHP: Wrote PHP code that enables SageMath calls in \(\LaTeX\)-enabled wikis.
- R, Tidyverse, ggplot, dplyr (2019+): Instruct students in a Data Wrangling and Visualization course
- RShiny (2021+): Wrote RShiny applets to give students feedback in Applied Calculs for Data Analysis, and then created a Wordle word finder (and other apps).
- bookdown (2022): Collaborated to create an inquiry based-learning task list for our Data Wrangling and Visualization course. *Python: Guided a student senior project in Python that used MonteCarlo methods for analyzing different strategies of the card game “Dominion”.
Mathematical Association of America Service
Intermountain Section of the MAA
2012 - Current
- Work with section officers to facilitate MAA activites.
- Contributed Talks organizer (2012 - 2014)
- First Vice Chair (2015 - 2016)
- Webmaster and technical support (2016 - 2022)
- Conference Organizer for yearly meetings (2021)